Introduction: Why look back?
How Americans lost sight of the state : adapting republican virtue to liberal self-interest
Between revolutions : the promise of the developmental vision
"To strengthen and perpetuate that union" : republican political economy
Outside the boundaries : "powers and energies in the extreme parts"
The uncontested state : letters, law, localities
Restoring "spontaneous action and self-regulation" : civil war and civil society
Judicial exceptions to Gilded Age laissez-faire
"A special form of associative action" : new liberalism and the national integration of public and private
Conclusion: Sighting the twentieth-century state.